Who is your favourite foreign former player? Womens Semifinal, Group C

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Who is your favourite foreign former player? Womens Semifinal, Group C

indiana · Tennis legend

Evonne gets my vote again.

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Evonne for me also, although Chrissie was close and I hope she progresses

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8 votes here as well, great start!

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14 votes in, well spread so far

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Thelma Coyne Long yet to score here, some background colour needed I think!

Michael D · All-time great

JonH comes home wrote:
Thelma Coyne Long yet to score here, some background colour needed I think!

My search wanted to come up with Thelma and Louise instead! However she's an Aussie who had an amazing doubles record in the Aus Open in the 1930s to 1950s winning it 12 times in that period, notwithstanding the years lost to the war. She won just two singles AO titles however and didn't reach further than the QF in singles in other slam events, and even in doubles it was only the AO where she actually won a title. .

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Michael D wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Thelma Coyne Long yet to score here, some background colour needed I think!
My search wanted to come up with Thelma and Louise instead! However she's an Aussie who had an amazing doubles record in the Aus Open in the 1930s to 1950s winning it 12 times in that period, notwithstanding the years lost to the war. She won just two singles AO titles however and didn't reach further than the QF in singles in other slam events, and even in doubles it was only the AO where she actually won a title. .

Thanks Michael, there are a number of players in this event who just did well in Australia, mens and womens, probably before the event became a truly global slam on the same level as the other ones.

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Mary Joe Fernandez won two Olympic doubles golds in Barcelona 92 and Atlanta 96. She is married to Tony Godsick, who is roger Federer's manager.

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Evonne stretching ahead, behind her its tight. 19 votes in already, matches some of the mens groups at the end of their voting!

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
Thelma Coyne Long yet to score here, some background colour needed I think!

Mrs Long who was born in 1918 and died in 2015 aged 96 was runner up in 2 Wimbledon doubles finals. The first was the mixed doubles in 1952 with Enrique Morea of Argentina who also had a long life and lived to the age of 92. They lost to Doris Hart and Frank Sedgman who also won the mens doubles and singles that year as well.(something that would be impossible these days). Sedgman is still alive at the age of 92.She was also runner in the ladies doubles with Mrs Hawton in 1957, losing to Darlene Hard and Althea Gibson. Gibson and Hard played in all the finals in 1957. (not happening these days)

brittak · Satellite level

Sticking with Chris Evert here!

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Caroline Wozniacki . She reached world No. 1 in singles,[11][12] the 20th in the Open Era, and the first woman from a Scandinavian country to hold the top ranking position.[13] She finished on top of the rankings in both 2010 and 2011

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With 20 votes in, Evonne leads from Chrissie and Aggie in 3rd.

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Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina (Russian: , IPA: [nstsij mskn]; born 8 July 1981) is a former professional tennis player. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title. Subsequent to this victory, she rose to No. 3 in the WTA rankings, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to reach the top 3 in the history of the rankings. In September 2004, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 2. She has not retired officially, but has been inactive on the WTA Tour since 2007

In October 2002, she had a series of photos taken for GQ magazine by the photographer Mark Seliger for a spread in the October 2002 edition of GQ, in which one approved photo of her fully clothed was published. After she won the French Open in 2004, some photographs from the shoot, in which she appeared topless, were published in the Russian magazine Medved (Bear). In August 2004, she filed an US$8 million lawsuit against GQ for allowing her topless photographs to appear in Medved without her consent.[6] On 19 June 2005, U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey, later United States Attorney General, ruled that Myskina could not stop the distribution of the topless photos, because she had signed a release. Myskina had claimed that she did not understand the photo release form and that she was not fluent in English at the time.[7]

Myskina has three sons born in 2008, 2010, and 2012.[

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